Henry's Hoard
Platform: ZX Spectrum
Region: UK
Media: Tape
Controller: Cursor and Keyboard
Genre: Action - Platformer
Gametype: Undefined
Release Year: 1985
Developer: Martyn Brown, Andy Bigos, John Broadhead
Publisher: Alternative Software Ltd
Players: 1
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Henry is a gnome who enjoys a reasonable life, but Henry is not a content gnome and feels he must achieve something. Motivated by greed, he's decided to go off to the Magic Castle to steal the Golden Hoard, a pile of treasure that is, logically enough, golden.

When Henry sets himself a task, it's usually an ambitious one, and this is no exception since the Magic Castle is guarded by lots of nasties with magical powers. Each section of the castle is represented within a screen and are fifty screens for Henry to make his way through.

To complete his quest, the gnome from home needs to visit every room and collect over two hundred magical items on his tourney. The nasties that hinder Henry include dastardly dwarves and not very nice elves; other baddies too foul to name also trot in and out the various caverns and sproing up and down from the ceiling.

The format of the game closely resembles the one originally used in Jet Set Willy: Henry can walk left and right and can jump. The main difference is Henry's gait his way of getting about is rather strange. Instead of the usual platform game type regular stroll, Henry staggers along as if he's been hitting too much of the Gnome Juice. The screens are all platform orientated with a number of baddies patrolling mindlessly along their predefined routes. They pay no attention to your presence on a screen, but they object to Henry very strongly if you are clumsy enough to guide the poor gnome into one of them, and bump him off. You are allowed five lives the Henries remaining jump up and down in a window at the bottom of the screen.

As an added bonus, entering some of the trickier screens returns a fresh complement of six bouncing Henries to the status bar along the lower bit of the screen. So keep the Henries bouncing and the pieces of Hoard flowing in and soon Henry will be a happy gnome.

Crash http://www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/Review.aspx?rid=6032&gid=2486
